Tuesday, 28 September, 2010
Restringing a nylon string classical guitar is fun! It takes a little extra work than a steel string guitar but it isn’t anywhere near as bad as you think. Let’s look at the steps involved.
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Tuesday, 10 August, 2010
The A Minor 9th chord (Am9) has the notes A, C, E, G, and B it in. Let’s look at how to play these on guitar in a few different voicings at a couple of positions on the guitar.
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Tuesday, 27 July, 2010
A capo is a clamp that attaches to the neck of the guitar to shorten the string length. By shortening the string length of the strings on the guitar, the pitch of the string is also raised.
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Monday, 19 July, 2010
There are only two ways to strum a guitar: a downstroke and an upstroke. Since there are only two types of strokes, there are only two types of symbols you need to know! Let’s find out.
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Monday, 12 July, 2010
Here are five different voicings of guitar chords that you probably never used before. Try them out, see if you can fit them anywhere into one of your songs or use them as a different voicing for your lead sheets. They’re sure to add some flavor wherever you use them. Let’s check them out.
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Sunday, 11 July, 2010
Life is so much easier with chord charts. They tell you exactly where and what notes to play on the guitar. Instead of figuring out what notes are in the chord, what inversion, what voicing, et cetera, you look at the chord chart and put your fingers where it says to put them and voila, [...]
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